List of Silent Hill characters
Encyclopedia
Major and minor characters from the survival horror video game series Silent Hill
are organized below.
Silent Hills player character
s are mostly "everymen
", in contrast to action-oriented survival horror video game series featuring combat-trained player characters, such as Resident Evil. Silent Hill is set in a multiverse
consisting of reality
and various alternate dimensions
which are monster-filled versions of the series' eponymous fictional American town.
) first appears in the first installment in the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill
, as the main protagonist and player character
. A thirty-two-year-old writer whose wife died of an illness four years prior to the game's events, he has not accepted her death. Harry lives with his adopted daughter Cheryl, whom he and his wife found abandoned while vacationing in Silent Hill. He drives with Cheryl to the town, due to her wish for a vacation there, but they have a car accident at its outskirts, which leaves him unconscious. He regains consciousness in one of the town's alternate dimensions, realizing that Cheryl has disappeared, so he navigates it to locate her, periodically slipping in and out of the other alternate dimension and eventually stumbling upon a ritual, in which Cheryl holds a prominent role, conducted by the town's religious cult
, which is called "The Order", in an attempt to revive a deity that it worships; the deity is ultimately revived and Harry defeats it. In the game's canonical
ending (the "Good" ending), he is given a baby girl, who is the reincarnation
of Alessa Gillespie and Cheryl.
Harry also appears in the series' third installment, Silent Hill 3
. He is the adoptive father of the game's main protagonist and player character, Heather. Prior to the events of Silent Hill 3, Harry killed a member of The Order who tracked the two down and went into hiding. In the game, he is assassinated by command of The Order priestess Claudia Wolf, who issued this order out of revenge and to further her goal of having Heather birth the deity.
Harry is also the main protagonist and player character of the first installment's "reimagining", Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
. After a car crash in the snowy streets of Silent Hill, he realizes that Cheryl, his seven-year-old daughter is missing. As he begins a quest to find his lost daughter, at the end, the player learns that actually the real Harry Mason died in a car crash eighteen years ago, leaving behind his traumatized daughter. The Harry Mason controlled by the player is a fantasy created by Cheryl.
. A clerk by profession, he searches for his dead wife in the town of Silent Hill after a receiving a letter from her.
) is the main protagonist and player character of Silent Hill 3
. As the reincarnation of Alessa Gillespie and Cheryl Mason from the first game, Heather is instrumental in main antagonist Claudia Wolf's efforts to bring about the rebirth of "God".
. Henry was trapped in his apartment for five days prior to the beginning of the game and begins to suffer from recurring nightmares. He discovers a hole in his bathroom, through which he enters several distorted "otherworlds" and encounters the other characters in the game. He barely knows any of the other tenants in his apartment building. He has been to Silent Hill at least once before.
) is the main protagonist and player character of Silent Hill Homecoming. The game focuses around Alex's return from an absence due to military service
. He returns to his hometown of Shepherd's Glen to search for his brother, Josh. He has no love for the people in the town nor the town itself, which has slipped into decay. He only feels that his brother needs his help and wants to leave the town as soon as his business is finished. It is later revealed that Alex was actually not in the military, but at a mental hospital, suffering from delusions of his brother being alive and needing help. They are later confirmed by his father to be his.
student. Following her disappearance after the car accident, she is eventually revealed to be one half of Alessa Gillespie's bisected soul. Cheryl rejoins with Alessa's half soul after the car accident.
Cheryl also appears in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. She is the reason behind Harry's quest through the town of Silent Hill. As the game reaches its end, however, the player uncovers the truth: Harry Mason died eighteen years prior to the events of the game, and a now twenty-five-year-old Cheryl Mason takes a psychological session to move on from her father's death, an event she has been denying for eighteen years.
and heads back to Brahms to call in reinforcements, but is unable to exit that dimension. Cybil is later attacked by an unknown assailant while at the local amusement park and, when Harry meets her there, afterwards, she is possessed by a force and attacks him. The player can either rescue her through exorcism by use of a dispelling substance on her or kill her, with both actions altering the game ending achieved. In the game's "Good+" ending, Cybil escapes with Harry and according to series writer Hiroyuki Owaku
, "what happens to her afterwards is left to players' imaginations." Cybil also appears in the series' first film adaptation
(portrayed by Laurie Holden
).
Cybil also appears in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. She is a police officer from Silent Hill who helps Harry in the quest of finding his daughter. Her personality and physical appearance varies according to the player.
in the suburb of Silent Hill and a priestess of The Order, serving as the game's primary antagonist. She looks much older than her actual age and is rumoured to have a secret side business in fortune-telling
and magic
spells that is related to the occult
, to which she is devoted. Dahlia is Alessa's mother and the mastermind behind the plan of the deity's revival, regarding the deity as an object to be exploited. Through its revival, she intends to negate the existing concepts, by destroying the present world, and obtain power. She talks and behaves enigmatically
and exploits Harry via his quest to find Cheryl, tricking him into helping her succeed with the plan. In the "Good" ending, which is the canonical
ending of the game, and in the "Good +" ending, Dahlia is electrocuted
by the deity itself, while in the "Bad +" and "Bad" endings, she is electrocuted by Cheryl/Alessa, after a possession of her by the deity.
Dahlia appears in the series' first film adaptation (portrayed by Deborah Kara Unger
) and will appear in the series' second film adaptation, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
(portrayed again by Unger). Dahlia is portrayed as a good mother to her daughter unlike her video game counterpart, and Alessa's burning is orchestrated by her sister Christabella, the leader of film's Cult. Dahlia lives in Silent Hill as a self-exile, and becomes the only survivor of the Cult after Alessa exacts her bloody revenge upon the church's members. Deborah Kara Unger described her role as "more complex" than she imagined.
Dahlia also appears in the prequel
video game Silent Hill: Origins.
Another appearance of Dahlia is in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, where she is reimagined, bearing the surname "Mason" instead of "Gillespie". Voiced by Laura Bailey
, she is the wife of Harry Mason and mother of Cheryl. Her real counterpart is only seen through echo photos and messages, and finally at the end of the game. The player, however, interacts with two manifestations of Dahlia through the game: a young Dahlia, a woman who apparently Harry has been cheating on his wife with, and an older Dahlia, who seems to be Cheryl's mother and Harry's wife. Her personality and physical appearance varies according to the player.
and the director of medical staff at Silent Hill's Alchemilla Hospital. He secretly allied with Dahlia Gillespie, but he turns on her and attempts to prevent her plans. When Harry Mason first finds Kaufmann, he is in a state of paranoid shock, sitting in an examination room with a gun in his hands. He stares down at an Air Screamer he has just shot lying in a puddle of blood at his feet. Seeing his vial of Aglaophotis has been shattered by Dahlia, he immediately sets out for the other sample. Depending on the player's actions, Kaufmann is either overwhelmed by a Mumbler inside Annie's Bar, or rescued by Harry. If saved, Kaufmann is thankful, but his business presses him onward. If Harry finds the motorcycle stash first, Kaufmann reappears and angrily snatches it away. He is last seen in the good endings, where he non-fatally shoots Dahlia and throws the Aglaophotis at the Incubator, causing it to expel the Incubus and knocks Kaufmann unconscious. After the Incubus's defeat, he regains conscious and is killed by Lisa Garland, sending him into the pit.
Kaufmann also appears in Silent Hill: Origins. He is the director of Alchemilla Hospital and aids Dahlia in her plan..
Another appearance of Kaufmann is in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, where he is reimagined, bearing the name "Dr. K". He is the therapist who tries to help Cheryl overcome her father's death.
) is a twenty-three-year-old nurse who worked at Alchemilla and another ally of Harry, repeatedly helping him. She nursed Alessa while the latter was hospitalized in Alchemilla, due to Alessa's life-threatening burns from the "accident" Dahlia staged. Harry encounters Lisa multiple times in the "Otherworld" hospital, uncertain of what exactly is going on and unable to remember what has happened to the town. Harry offers to protect her if she will accompany him, but she refuses, believing that she is "not supposed to leave" the room. Eventually realizing that she is actually dead, she begs Harry to save her, but he flees the room and bars her exit from behind a closed door. She is last seen in the good endings, attacking Kaufmann and preventing him from leaving Otherworld while it caves in on itself. Lisa also appears as a trainee nurse in Origins, and is fondly remembered by Heather in Silent Hill 3.
Lisa also appears in Silent Hill: Origins, where she is still a trainee and desires to act in the theatre.
Another appearance of Lisa is in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, where she is reimagined. She is a nurse at Alchemilla Hospital. Harry meets her after she is involved in a car crash, and then follows her to her home. She calls Harry back to her apartment later, and is either dying or already dead by the time he arrives. Her personality varies according to the player.
. Alessa developed an obsession to cease to exist, which is a sentiment rooted in benevolence, because, that way, she would escape from the pain in which she was eternally made to live. Harry locates Dahlia along with Cheryl/Alessa and Alessa's apparition, shortly before the game's end. The apparition disappears and a new life form is created as a result of Cheryl's rejoin with the other half of the soul. This being is named "Incubator" and is Cheryl/Alessa, having the physical appearance of a non-charred Alessa. In the game's canonical, "Good" ending, and in the "Good +" ending, Incubator manifests a baby girl that is the reincarnation
of Alessa and Cheryl, gives it to Harry, creates a portal
for both of them to escape and is ultimately swept up by fire, while in the "Bad" and "Bad +" endings, which do not see her manifest a baby, she is killed by Harry, after thanking him. She also appears in Silent Hill: Origins, but is the only character of the first installment in the series who does not appear in Shattered Memories.
Alessa also appears in the series' first film adaptation (portrayed by Jodelle Ferland
and Lorry Ayers). In the film, Alessa's backstory is similar to that of the video games. She is bullied in school, and is implied to be raped by the school janitor (who later appears as a monster). Her aunt Christabella burns her as part of a Cult ceremony, but she survives and is put in hospital. Alessa's anger causes her to personify her darkness as "Dark Alessa", also played by Jodelle Ferland. Dark Alessa transforms the town into its reality shifting self but is unable to get revenge upon the Cult due to be unable to enter their church thanks to their blind faith. Alessa than split her goodness away into Sharon Da Silva, again played by Jodelle, who was put up for adoption, later adopted by Rose and Christopher Da Silva. Sharon experiences nightmares of the town and eventually returns there with Rose, ultimately becoming one with Dark Alessa to create a new incarnation of Alessa. Originally, Christophe Gans
, the film's director, considered having three different girls to play Alessa's three selves but upon meeting Jodelle he chose her to play all three roles.
) is a priestess of The Order, and the main antagonist of the game. It is said during the game that she was abused as a child. She used to be a friend of Alessa in their childhood. Claudia is attempting to carry on where Dahlia Gillespie failed in Silent Hill and use Alessa Gillespie (through her reincarnation as Heather) to birth "the god". Contrary to Dahlia, her intention in resurrecting the god is to "save" mankind, though she believes she is a sinner and will not be saved. Much like Dahlia, she speaks in riddles and is always barefoot
. At the end of the game, she tries to give birth to the deity herself and dies.
.
) appears in Silent Hill 2. She is a gloomy and cynical nineteen-year-old who James first encounters in a cemetery. She ran away to Silent Hill to search for her mother. He later finds her contemplating suicide and agrees to hold on to her knife for her. After James rescues her from a monster, she confesses her father used to sexually abuse her, while a newspaper article James finds implies she killed her father. Her last appearance is in a burning stairwell where she asks him to return her knife, and when he refuses, she walks into the fire, unable to cope with her guilt any longer.
and later inexplicably resurrected. As a result of her repeated deaths, James re-lives the guilt and suffering he felt when he killed Mary. She also appears as the player-character and protagonist of Born From a Wish, the side-story scenario in the special editions and re-releases of the game.
and created the "Otherworld". An incarnation of Walter Sullivan's younger self also appears in the game.
for over 30 years. It is implied in the game that he is the father of Silent Hill 2' s player character James Sunderland.
in front of the police station, putting up a seemingly endless pile of missing person reports, including the report of her younger sister, Nora. At first she is cold towards Alex, resenting him for leaving without telling her. However, she noticeably softens during the story. She later follows Alex through certain parts of the game, and may escape the town with him if the right ending is earned.
for her part in the crimes against The Order. The ending of the game is affected by whether or not Alex shoots his mother before she dies a painful death.
Adam J. Shepherd (born 1954), is Alex and Joshua's father, who is explained as having left town, possibly to search for Joshua. A former military man (a Colonel
in the Army
and Stationed at Ft. Bragg), he was the sheriff of Shepherd's Glen, and his ancestor, Isaac Shepherd, was one of four Silent Hill residents to settle Shepherd's Glen, more than 150 years ago. He is encountered in a church in Silent Hill, in a confessional booth, where he confesses (to someone he believes to be a priest, but is actually Alex) that he loved both of his sons and did not want to lose either of them to the sacrifices required by The Order. He admits to treating Alex badly because he knew he would be sacrificed. Thus not wanting to become attached and lessening the blow when the time came. After Josh's death he could not bring himself to kill Alex thus inadvertently triggering the events of the game. The option of forgiving or not forgiving him affects the ending received. He is executed by the monster Pyramid Head
shortly thereafter.
in exchange for a newer gun. Like most other townspeople in Shepherd's Glen, he is unhelpful as to the cause of the decay of the town. He is later found to be working for The Order, claiming his love of fixing things has carried over into his work for The Order, in which he kills people who go against the cult's teachings. He captures and threatens Elle with a saw tool before being attacked and killed by Alex.
Margaret Holloway is the antagonist of Silent Hill: Homecoming. Like Alex's father, she is descended from one of Shepherd's Glen's founders. She is the first person to greet Alex on his return. In the beginning, she welcomes Alex, but warns him that the town has changed, and not for the better. Alex discovers her later in Silent Hill, tied down to a chair. He releases her and she escapes. It is later learned that she was there to be killed by the monster, Asphyxia, an incarnation of Nora. Like the other founder descendants, she was forced to sacrifice a child to keep the influence of The Order from pervading Shepherd's Glen. She chose her younger daughter, Nora, whom she personally strangled. Unlike the others she shows no signs to remorse over her actions. She is later found to be cooperating with The Order. Because of the failed sacrifice of Alex, she seeks to redeem herself in the eyes of The Order by killing him. She attempts to kill Alex with a cordless drill, but he overpowers her and forces the drill through her skull, killing her.
Sam Bartlett is a descendant of one of the town's founders, like Alex's father and Judge Holloway. Alex first sees him in the cemetery digging in the Bartlett family plot, although Alex does not learn that it is he until later. Alex searches for him to find out if he knows where Josh is, since Josh is good friends with the Bartlett's son, Joey. Bartlett is found in the Grand Hotel in Silent Hill, drunkenly lamenting the fate of Shepherd's Glen. It is later learned that he sacrificed his son Joey by burying him alive in the cemetery, which had a massive impact on his psyche, leading to his pathologically digging up graves. He is killed in the hotel's greenhouse
by the monster Sepulcher, which is an incarnation of Joey.
Silent Hill
is a survival horror video game series consisting of seven installments published by Konami and its subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment. The first four games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4, have been developed by an internal factor, Team Silent...
are organized below.
Silent Hills player character
Player character
A player character or playable character is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game. A player character is a persona of the player who controls it. Player characters...
s are mostly "everymen
Everyman
In literature and drama, the term everyman has come to mean an ordinary individual, with whom the audience or reader is supposed to be able to identify easily, and who is often placed in extraordinary circumstances...
", in contrast to action-oriented survival horror video game series featuring combat-trained player characters, such as Resident Evil. Silent Hill is set in a multiverse
Multiverse
The multiverse is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes that together comprise all of reality.Multiverse may also refer to:-In fiction:* Multiverse , the fictional multiverse used by DC Comics...
consisting of reality
Reality
In philosophy, reality is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined. In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible...
and various alternate dimensions
Parallel universe (fiction)
A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality...
which are monster-filled versions of the series' eponymous fictional American town.
Harry Mason
Harold "Harry" Mason (voiced by Michael GMichael Gough (voice actor)
Michael Gough is an American voice actor and singer.-Television roles:*Dog from WordWorld* Don Diego de la Vega and The lead role in The New Adventures of Zorro* "Goof Troop" - Fester Swollen...
) first appears in the first installment in the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill
Silent Hill (video game)
Silent Hill is a survival horror video game for the PlayStation and the first installment in the Silent Hill series. Published by Konami and developed by Team Silent, a Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo group, the game was released in North America in January 1999, and in Japan and Europe later...
, as the main protagonist and player character
Player character
A player character or playable character is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game. A player character is a persona of the player who controls it. Player characters...
. A thirty-two-year-old writer whose wife died of an illness four years prior to the game's events, he has not accepted her death. Harry lives with his adopted daughter Cheryl, whom he and his wife found abandoned while vacationing in Silent Hill. He drives with Cheryl to the town, due to her wish for a vacation there, but they have a car accident at its outskirts, which leaves him unconscious. He regains consciousness in one of the town's alternate dimensions, realizing that Cheryl has disappeared, so he navigates it to locate her, periodically slipping in and out of the other alternate dimension and eventually stumbling upon a ritual, in which Cheryl holds a prominent role, conducted by the town's religious cult
Cult
The word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices...
, which is called "The Order", in an attempt to revive a deity that it worships; the deity is ultimately revived and Harry defeats it. In the game's canonical
Canon (fiction)
In the context of a work of fiction, the term canon denotes the material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe's fan base. It is often contrasted with, or used as the basis for, works of fan fiction, which are not considered canonical...
ending (the "Good" ending), he is given a baby girl, who is the reincarnation
Reincarnation
Reincarnation best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant...
of Alessa Gillespie and Cheryl.
Harry also appears in the series' third installment, Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3 is a survival horror video game published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 and developed by Team Silent, a production group within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. It is the third installment in the Silent Hill series and a direct sequel to the first Silent Hill game...
. He is the adoptive father of the game's main protagonist and player character, Heather. Prior to the events of Silent Hill 3, Harry killed a member of The Order who tracked the two down and went into hiding. In the game, he is assassinated by command of The Order priestess Claudia Wolf, who issued this order out of revenge and to further her goal of having Heather birth the deity.
Harry is also the main protagonist and player character of the first installment's "reimagining", Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a survival horror video game for the Wii and the seventh installment in the Silent Hill series, being a "reimagining" of the first installment. Published by Konami Digital Entertainment and developed by Climax Studios, the game was released in December 2009, with...
. After a car crash in the snowy streets of Silent Hill, he realizes that Cheryl, his seven-year-old daughter is missing. As he begins a quest to find his lost daughter, at the end, the player learns that actually the real Harry Mason died in a car crash eighteen years ago, leaving behind his traumatized daughter. The Harry Mason controlled by the player is a fantasy created by Cheryl.
James Sunderland
James Sunderland (voiced by Guy Cihi) is the main protagonist and primary player character of Silent Hill 2Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2 is a survival horror video game published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 and developed by Team Silent, a production group within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo...
. A clerk by profession, he searches for his dead wife in the town of Silent Hill after a receiving a letter from her.
Heather
Heather (voiced by Heather MorrisHeather Morris (voice actress)
Heather Morris is an actress/voice actress, primarily known for her work in the Silent Hill series of video games.Her debut was in the 2002 science fiction/action game Murakumo developed by From Software....
) is the main protagonist and player character of Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3 is a survival horror video game published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 and developed by Team Silent, a production group within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. It is the third installment in the Silent Hill series and a direct sequel to the first Silent Hill game...
. As the reincarnation of Alessa Gillespie and Cheryl Mason from the first game, Heather is instrumental in main antagonist Claudia Wolf's efforts to bring about the rebirth of "God".
Henry Townshend
Henry Townshend is the main protagonist and player character of Silent Hill 4: The RoomSilent Hill 4: The Room
Silent Hill 4: The Room is the fourth installment in the Silent Hill survival horror series, published by Konami and developed by Team Silent, a production group within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. The game was released in Japan in June 2004 and in North America and Europe in September of...
. Henry was trapped in his apartment for five days prior to the beginning of the game and begins to suffer from recurring nightmares. He discovers a hole in his bathroom, through which he enters several distorted "otherworlds" and encounters the other characters in the game. He barely knows any of the other tenants in his apartment building. He has been to Silent Hill at least once before.
Travis Grady
Travis Grady (voiced by Mikey O'Connor) is the main protagonist and player character of Silent Hill: Origins. He is a trucker who rescues Alessa Gillespie from the house fire mentioned in Silent Hill. It is revealed that he was abused by his mother, who attempted to kill him at a young age. She was subsequently admitted to Cedar Groves Sanitarium, where she rationalized her actions. She mentioned that Travis was a pest, and that he also had a devil in him. It is also revealed that Travis's father killed himself while he was still a child. Travis is one of the very few characters in the Silent Hill series (especially as a player character) who shows any history of handling and using firearms. He makes a cameo appearance in the beginning of Silent Hill Homecoming. Here, he gives Alex Shepherd, the game's main protagonist, a ride to the town of Shepherd's Glen.Alex Shepherd
Alex Shepherd (voiced by Brian BloomBrian Bloom
Brian Keith Bloom is an American actor, voice actor, and screenwriter.Bloom was born in Merrick, New York, the brother of producer/actor Scott Bloom and musician Mike Bloom....
) is the main protagonist and player character of Silent Hill Homecoming. The game focuses around Alex's return from an absence due to military service
Military service
Military service, in its simplest sense, is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, whether as a chosen job or as a result of an involuntary draft . Some nations require a specific amount of military service from every citizen...
. He returns to his hometown of Shepherd's Glen to search for his brother, Josh. He has no love for the people in the town nor the town itself, which has slipped into decay. He only feels that his brother needs his help and wants to leave the town as soon as his business is finished. It is later revealed that Alex was actually not in the military, but at a mental hospital, suffering from delusions of his brother being alive and needing help. They are later confirmed by his father to be his.
Murphy Pendleton
Murphy Pendleton is the main protagonist and player character of the upcoming Silent Hill: Downpour. A prisoner who has been incarcerated for several years, his sentence has been extended once. Due to his history at Ryall State Prison, he is transferred to nearby Wayside Maximum Security Penitentiary, but the prison transport bus he is being transported with careens off a road, which results in him losing consciousness. Regaining it in a forest next to the wrecked bus, he enters Silent Hill, where he meets locals.Cheryl Mason
Cheryl Mason (voiced by Sandra Wane) is Harry's seven-year-old adopted daughter and an elementary schoolElementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...
student. Following her disappearance after the car accident, she is eventually revealed to be one half of Alessa Gillespie's bisected soul. Cheryl rejoins with Alessa's half soul after the car accident.
Cheryl also appears in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. She is the reason behind Harry's quest through the town of Silent Hill. As the game reaches its end, however, the player uncovers the truth: Harry Mason died eighteen years prior to the events of the game, and a now twenty-five-year-old Cheryl Mason takes a psychological session to move on from her father's death, an event she has been denying for eighteen years.
Cybil Bennett
Cybil Bennett (voiced by Susan Papa) is a twenty-eight-year-old police officer from the nearby town of Brahms and an ally of Harry, repeatedly supporting him in his search for Cheryl when they periodically meet in both alternate dimensions. She comes to Silent Hill to check on it and investigate, due to a sudden loss of communications. She first meets Harry in one of the alternate dimensions and, realizing the abnormality of the situation, provides him with a handgunHandgun
A handgun is a firearm designed to be held and operated by one hand. This characteristic differentiates handguns as a general class of firearms from long guns such as rifles and shotguns ....
and heads back to Brahms to call in reinforcements, but is unable to exit that dimension. Cybil is later attacked by an unknown assailant while at the local amusement park and, when Harry meets her there, afterwards, she is possessed by a force and attacks him. The player can either rescue her through exorcism by use of a dispelling substance on her or kill her, with both actions altering the game ending achieved. In the game's "Good+" ending, Cybil escapes with Harry and according to series writer Hiroyuki Owaku
Hiroyuki Owaku
is a Japanese video game writer best known for his work with Team Silent in the Silent Hill franchise.-Career:Ōwaku first worked in the survival horror video game Silent Hill as event programmer and enemy programmer. Following the game's success, Team Silent worked on various sequels, direct or...
, "what happens to her afterwards is left to players' imaginations." Cybil also appears in the series' first film adaptation
Silent Hill (film)
Silent Hill is a 2006 horror film directed by Christophe Gans and written by Roger Avary. The story is an adaptation of the Silent Hill series of survival horror video games created by Konami. The film, particularly its emotional, religious and aesthetic content as well as its creature design,...
(portrayed by Laurie Holden
Laurie Holden
Heather Laurie Holden is an American-Canadian actress and human rights activist. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Marita Covarrubias in The X-Files, Adele Stanton on The Majestic, Cybil Bennett in Silent Hill, Amanda Dumfries in The Mist, Olivia Murray in The Shield, and Andrea in The...
).
Cybil also appears in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. She is a police officer from Silent Hill who helps Harry in the quest of finding his daughter. Her personality and physical appearance varies according to the player.
Dahlia Gillespie
Dahlia Gillespie (voiced by Liz Mamorsky) is the forty-six-year-old owner of an antique shopAntique shop
An antique shop is a retail store specializing in the selling of antiques. Antiques shops can be located either locally and with the advent of the Internet found online...
in the suburb of Silent Hill and a priestess of The Order, serving as the game's primary antagonist. She looks much older than her actual age and is rumoured to have a secret side business in fortune-telling
Fortune-telling
Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting information about a person's life. The scope of fortune-telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination...
and magic
Magic (paranormal)
Magic is the claimed art of manipulating aspects of reality either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult laws unknown to science. It is in contrast to science, in that science does not accept anything not subject to either direct or indirect observation, and subject to logical...
spells that is related to the occult
Occult
The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...
, to which she is devoted. Dahlia is Alessa's mother and the mastermind behind the plan of the deity's revival, regarding the deity as an object to be exploited. Through its revival, she intends to negate the existing concepts, by destroying the present world, and obtain power. She talks and behaves enigmatically
Enigma
An enigma is a type of riddle generally expressed in radical or allegorical language that requires ingenuity and careful thought for its solution.Enigma, aenigma, or enigmatic may also refer to:-Music:...
and exploits Harry via his quest to find Cheryl, tricking him into helping her succeed with the plan. In the "Good" ending, which is the canonical
Canon (fiction)
In the context of a work of fiction, the term canon denotes the material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe's fan base. It is often contrasted with, or used as the basis for, works of fan fiction, which are not considered canonical...
ending of the game, and in the "Good +" ending, Dahlia is electrocuted
Electrocution
Electrocution is a type of electric shock that, as determined by a stopped heart, can end life. Electrocution is frequently used to refer to any electric shock received but is technically incorrect; the choice of definition varies from dictionary to dictionary...
by the deity itself, while in the "Bad +" and "Bad" endings, she is electrocuted by Cheryl/Alessa, after a possession of her by the deity.
Dahlia appears in the series' first film adaptation (portrayed by Deborah Kara Unger
Deborah Kara Unger
Deborah Kara Unger is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the films Crash , The Game , The Hurricane , White Noise , Silent Hill and 88 Minutes...
) and will appear in the series' second film adaptation, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is an upcoming American 3D horror film due to release in 2012. Written and directed by Michael J. Bassett, Revelation 3D is based on the survival horror video game Silent Hill 3 and a sequel to the horror film Silent Hill, which is an adaptation of the survival horror...
(portrayed again by Unger). Dahlia is portrayed as a good mother to her daughter unlike her video game counterpart, and Alessa's burning is orchestrated by her sister Christabella, the leader of film's Cult. Dahlia lives in Silent Hill as a self-exile, and becomes the only survivor of the Cult after Alessa exacts her bloody revenge upon the church's members. Deborah Kara Unger described her role as "more complex" than she imagined.
Dahlia also appears in the prequel
Prequel
A prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- and sequel...
video game Silent Hill: Origins.
Another appearance of Dahlia is in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, where she is reimagined, bearing the surname "Mason" instead of "Gillespie". Voiced by Laura Bailey
Laura Bailey (voice actress)
Laura Dawn Bailey is an American actress, voice actress, Singer, Line Producer and ADR Director. She has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime films, television series, as well as video games...
, she is the wife of Harry Mason and mother of Cheryl. Her real counterpart is only seen through echo photos and messages, and finally at the end of the game. The player, however, interacts with two manifestations of Dahlia through the game: a young Dahlia, a woman who apparently Harry has been cheating on his wife with, and an older Dahlia, who seems to be Cheryl's mother and Harry's wife. Her personality and physical appearance varies according to the player.
Michael Kaufmann
Michael Kaufmann (voiced by Jarion Monroe) is a fifty-year-old doctorPhysician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
and the director of medical staff at Silent Hill's Alchemilla Hospital. He secretly allied with Dahlia Gillespie, but he turns on her and attempts to prevent her plans. When Harry Mason first finds Kaufmann, he is in a state of paranoid shock, sitting in an examination room with a gun in his hands. He stares down at an Air Screamer he has just shot lying in a puddle of blood at his feet. Seeing his vial of Aglaophotis has been shattered by Dahlia, he immediately sets out for the other sample. Depending on the player's actions, Kaufmann is either overwhelmed by a Mumbler inside Annie's Bar, or rescued by Harry. If saved, Kaufmann is thankful, but his business presses him onward. If Harry finds the motorcycle stash first, Kaufmann reappears and angrily snatches it away. He is last seen in the good endings, where he non-fatally shoots Dahlia and throws the Aglaophotis at the Incubator, causing it to expel the Incubus and knocks Kaufmann unconscious. After the Incubus's defeat, he regains conscious and is killed by Lisa Garland, sending him into the pit.
Kaufmann also appears in Silent Hill: Origins. He is the director of Alchemilla Hospital and aids Dahlia in her plan..
Another appearance of Kaufmann is in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, where he is reimagined, bearing the name "Dr. K". He is the therapist who tries to help Cheryl overcome her father's death.
Lisa Garland
Lisa Garland (voiced by Thessaly LernerThessaly Lerner
Thessaly Lerner is a stage, film and voice actress, writer, director, producer. She is perhaps best known as the voice of the teenage girl in Electronic Art’s The Sims 2, and all subsequent expansion packs, and to survival horror fans as the voice of the nurse Lisa Garland in the 1999 PlayStation...
) is a twenty-three-year-old nurse who worked at Alchemilla and another ally of Harry, repeatedly helping him. She nursed Alessa while the latter was hospitalized in Alchemilla, due to Alessa's life-threatening burns from the "accident" Dahlia staged. Harry encounters Lisa multiple times in the "Otherworld" hospital, uncertain of what exactly is going on and unable to remember what has happened to the town. Harry offers to protect her if she will accompany him, but she refuses, believing that she is "not supposed to leave" the room. Eventually realizing that she is actually dead, she begs Harry to save her, but he flees the room and bars her exit from behind a closed door. She is last seen in the good endings, attacking Kaufmann and preventing him from leaving Otherworld while it caves in on itself. Lisa also appears as a trainee nurse in Origins, and is fondly remembered by Heather in Silent Hill 3.
Lisa also appears in Silent Hill: Origins, where she is still a trainee and desires to act in the theatre.
Another appearance of Lisa is in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, where she is reimagined. She is a nurse at Alchemilla Hospital. Harry meets her after she is involved in a car crash, and then follows her to her home. She calls Harry back to her apartment later, and is either dying or already dead by the time he arrives. Her personality varies according to the player.
Alessa Gillespie
Alessa Gillespie (voiced by Sandra Wane) is Dahlia's fourteen-year-old daughter, who has possessed supernatural powers ever since she was born. Her classmates at elementary school called her a witch, teased her, scribbled on her desk, and excluded her, because of her possession of these abilities. Seven years prior to the game's events, Dahlia conducted a ritual that impregnated Alessa with the deity through immolation, in order for her to give birth to it; Alessa, having received extensive life-threatening burns from the ritual, survived because her status as the god's "vessel" rendered her immortal. Due to her resistance to the ritual, her soul was bisected, putting the deity inside her in a dormant state, and, thus, preventing the birth. One of the soul's halves went on to leave in baby Cheryl. After the ritual, Alessa was declared to have been found dead at the Gillespie house and was secretly and forcibly hospitalized in Alchemilla, confined in its basement. She was made to continue living through an incantationIncantation
An incantation or enchantment is a charm or spell created using words. An incantation may take place during a ritual, either a hymn or prayer, and may invoke or praise a deity. In magic, occultism, witchcraft it may be used with the intention of casting a spell on an object or a person...
. Alessa developed an obsession to cease to exist, which is a sentiment rooted in benevolence, because, that way, she would escape from the pain in which she was eternally made to live. Harry locates Dahlia along with Cheryl/Alessa and Alessa's apparition, shortly before the game's end. The apparition disappears and a new life form is created as a result of Cheryl's rejoin with the other half of the soul. This being is named "Incubator" and is Cheryl/Alessa, having the physical appearance of a non-charred Alessa. In the game's canonical, "Good" ending, and in the "Good +" ending, Incubator manifests a baby girl that is the reincarnation
Reincarnation
Reincarnation best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant...
of Alessa and Cheryl, gives it to Harry, creates a portal
Portals in fiction
A portal in science fiction and fantasy is a magical or technological doorway that connects two distant locations separated by spacetime. It usually consists of two or more gateways, with an object entering one gateway leaving via the other instantaneously....
for both of them to escape and is ultimately swept up by fire, while in the "Bad" and "Bad +" endings, which do not see her manifest a baby, she is killed by Harry, after thanking him. She also appears in Silent Hill: Origins, but is the only character of the first installment in the series who does not appear in Shattered Memories.
Alessa also appears in the series' first film adaptation (portrayed by Jodelle Ferland
Jodelle Ferland
Jodelle Micah Ferland is a Canadian actress, best known for her portrayal of Sharon and Alessa in the 2006 horror film Silent Hill, Mary Jensen in the 2004 miniseries Kingdom Hospital and her portrayal of Bree Tanner in the The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.-Life and career:Ferland was born in Nanaimo,...
and Lorry Ayers). In the film, Alessa's backstory is similar to that of the video games. She is bullied in school, and is implied to be raped by the school janitor (who later appears as a monster). Her aunt Christabella burns her as part of a Cult ceremony, but she survives and is put in hospital. Alessa's anger causes her to personify her darkness as "Dark Alessa", also played by Jodelle Ferland. Dark Alessa transforms the town into its reality shifting self but is unable to get revenge upon the Cult due to be unable to enter their church thanks to their blind faith. Alessa than split her goodness away into Sharon Da Silva, again played by Jodelle, who was put up for adoption, later adopted by Rose and Christopher Da Silva. Sharon experiences nightmares of the town and eventually returns there with Rose, ultimately becoming one with Dark Alessa to create a new incarnation of Alessa. Originally, Christophe Gans
Christophe Gans
Christophe Gans is a French film director, writer, and producer who specializes in horror, fantasy movies and video game adaptations.-Biography:...
, the film's director, considered having three different girls to play Alessa's three selves but upon meeting Jodelle he chose her to play all three roles.
Claudia Wolf
Claudia Wolf (voiced by Donna BurkeDonna Burke
Donna Burke, a singer, narrator, and entrepreneur, was born in Perth, Australia, and moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1996. She lives with her guitarist and husband Bill Benfield and her three cats....
) is a priestess of The Order, and the main antagonist of the game. It is said during the game that she was abused as a child. She used to be a friend of Alessa in their childhood. Claudia is attempting to carry on where Dahlia Gillespie failed in Silent Hill and use Alessa Gillespie (through her reincarnation as Heather) to birth "the god". Contrary to Dahlia, her intention in resurrecting the god is to "save" mankind, though she believes she is a sinner and will not be saved. Much like Dahlia, she speaks in riddles and is always barefoot
Barefoot
Barefoot is the state of not wearing any footwear. Being barefoot is regarded as a human's natural state, though for functional, fashion and social reasons footwear is worn, at least on some occasions...
. At the end of the game, she tries to give birth to the deity herself and dies.
Douglas Cartland
Douglas Cartland (voiced by Richard Grosse) is a private investigator hired by Claudia Wolf and The Order to locate Heather. When this results in the death of Heather's adoptive father, Harry, he feels guilty and accompanies Heather into Silent Hill as an ally. In the "Normal" ending, which is the only ending available on the first play-through of the game, Heather and Douglas survive. If the player gets the "Possessed" ending, Heather kills Douglas, implying she herself has been "possessed". Douglas is mentioned in one of The Order's books in Silent Hill Homecoming, which states Douglas successfully exposed the Silent Hill cult to the authorities after the events of Silent Hill 3Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3 is a survival horror video game published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 and developed by Team Silent, a production group within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. It is the third installment in the Silent Hill series and a direct sequel to the first Silent Hill game...
.
Vincent
Vincent (voiced by Clifford Rippel) is a priest of The Order. Vincent is less dogmatic than Claudia and opposes her actions. Vincent appears to be on Heather's side during the game. With his finances, he built the church where the final battle is staged in and is killed by Claudia when Heather enters.Leonard Wolf
Leonard Wolf (voiced by Matt Lagan) is the abusive father of Claudia and former leader of The Order. Heather encounters him in the Brookhaven Hospital to acquire an artifact he and Vincent believe can prevent the birth of the deity, where he appears as a monster. His theology differs slightly from Claudia's in he believes only members of The Order will be saved.Helen Grady
Helen Grady is Travis' mother who was committed to the Cedar Grove Sanitarium in 1959 when Travis was a boy. Helen attempted to murder her son, calling him the "Red Devil".Richard Grady
Richard Grady is Travis' father who fell into a deep depression after his wife was institutionalized. He later committed suicide when Travis was young.Mary Shepherd-Sunderland
Mary Shepherd-Sunderland (voiced by Monica Horgan) is James' wife. She became ill three years before the start of the game; James initially believes the illness killed her, but later learns he actually smothered her to death with a pillow. She met Laura at a hospital and was planning to adopt her if she recovered from her illness. In her last days alive, she believed she had become physically repulsive, acting "self-centered and difficult, even abusive towards James".Angela Orosco
Angela Orosco (voiced by Donna BurkeDonna Burke
Donna Burke, a singer, narrator, and entrepreneur, was born in Perth, Australia, and moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1996. She lives with her guitarist and husband Bill Benfield and her three cats....
) appears in Silent Hill 2. She is a gloomy and cynical nineteen-year-old who James first encounters in a cemetery. She ran away to Silent Hill to search for her mother. He later finds her contemplating suicide and agrees to hold on to her knife for her. After James rescues her from a monster, she confesses her father used to sexually abuse her, while a newspaper article James finds implies she killed her father. Her last appearance is in a burning stairwell where she asks him to return her knife, and when he refuses, she walks into the fire, unable to cope with her guilt any longer.
Eddie Dombrowski
Eddie Dombrowski (voiced by David Schaufele) appears in Silent Hill 2. He harbors a darker side to his easy-going personality. James first encounters him vomiting into a toilet and denying killing a person. In a later encounter, Eddie reveals he suffered years of abuse regarding his weight and appearance. Unable to tolerate it any longer, he fled to Silent Hill after maiming a bully and killing his dog. James kills him in self-defense when he attacks, believing James insulted him.Laura
Laura (voiced by Jakey Breckenridge) appears in Silent Hill 2. She is an eight-year-old who comes to the town hoping to find Mary. Laura met her while hospitalized in the same facility and, unbeknownst to James, became good friends. She seems to have no knowledge of the monsters in the town and holds a grudge against James, whom she believed mistreated Mary.Maria
Maria (voiced by Monica Horgan) appears in Silent Hill 2. She bears a striking resemblance to Mary, except for her more provocative clothing and behavior. She follows James through the town after their meeting at Toluca Lake. Over the course of the game, she displays memories only he and Mary shared, further confusing him; she is also repeatedly killed by the monster Pyramid HeadPyramid Head
Pyramid Head, also known as Red Pyramid Thing or in Japan, is a fictional character from the Silent Hill series of survival horror video games published by Konami. Introduced in the 2001 installment Silent Hill 2, he stalks James Sunderland, the primary player character, who comes to the town of...
and later inexplicably resurrected. As a result of her repeated deaths, James re-lives the guilt and suffering he felt when he killed Mary. She also appears as the player-character and protagonist of Born From a Wish, the side-story scenario in the special editions and re-releases of the game.
Ernest Baldwin
Ernest Baldwin (voiced by Ward E. Sexton) appears in Silent Hill 2. He is the man whom Maria encounters in the "Born From a Wish" sub-scenario. Although they never see each other and have conversations through a locked door, Ernest is the primary reason Maria finds and accompanies James in Silent Hill 2. He refers to James as a "bad man". He is revealed to be a ghost.Amy Baldwin
Amy Baldwin (voiced by Florence Minowa) appears in Silent Hill 2. She is the daughter of Ernest Baldwin.Eileen Galvin
Eileen Galvin lives next door to Henry in Room 303. Walter intends to make her his twentieth victim (having met her when she was a child and he was a homeless teen), but her murder is disrupted by the intervention of the child Walter, though she is badly wounded. Henry finds her again in the Hospital world, where she accompanies him throughout the rest of the game as an ally. Her fate directly affects the ending achieved. Eileen has also visited Silent Hill at least once in her life.Walter Sullivan
Walter Sullivan is the antagonist of the game. He was first referenced in a newspaper scrap in Silent Hill 2 as having killed himself shortly after killing twins Billy and Miriam Locane; the twins later appear as the "twin victim" creature Henry encounters. Sullivan was raised in The Order's "Wish House" orphanage, where he came to believe the place of his birth, Room 302, was his biological mother. His killing spree is part of a ritual he is attempting to carry out, the 21 Sacraments, to purify Room 302. He underwent the mysterious "Ritual of Assumption", which seems to grant him immortalityImmortality
Immortality is the ability to live forever. It is unknown whether human physical immortality is an achievable condition. Biological forms have inherent limitations which may or may not be able to be overcome through medical interventions or engineering...
and created the "Otherworld". An incarnation of Walter Sullivan's younger self also appears in the game.
Cynthia Velasquez
Cynthia Velasquez is trapped in the "subway" world and convinced she is in a dream. She offers Henry a "special favor" if he helps her escape. At the end of the level Henry finds her dying from multiple wounds as Walter's sixteenth victim and when he returns to the subway world her ghost attacks him. The first of Walter's victims who Henry encounters.Jasper Gein
Jasper Gein is a man with a noticeable stammer Henry finds in the Forest world. Jasper has a strong interest in The Order and Silent Hill occult activity in general. He is closely linked with Walter Sullivan's second and third victims, and he was in fact at the scene of the crime when his college friends were strangled. He is burned alive by Sullivan as Sullivan's seventeenth victim and haunts the area as a ghost when Henry returns.Andrew DeSalvo
Andrew DeSalvo is a man Henry meets locked in a cell in the Water Prison world. Prior to the game DeSalvo was employed by The Order as a guard at the Wish House and the Water Prison, where he was abusive towards the children there. After Henry frees him from the cell he is disturbed to meet young Walter and is last seen drowned as Walter's eighteenth victim. When Henry returns to the Water Prison he has to fight DeSalvo's ghost to acquire a key.Richard Braintree
Richard Braintree lives in Room 207 of Henry's apartment building. For over thirty years Richard had lived at the South Ashfield Heights, and had always been an aggressor towards Walter in his younger years. During the time Joseph lived at the Apartments, there was an incident where he beat a fellow tenant named Mike, who stalked nurse Rachel. During the game, Richard is encountered in the "Building World", where he accosts child Walter. He is killed by Walter using an electric chair, attempting to identify his killer to Henry before dying. Like Sullivan's other victims, he is encountered as a ghost in the world where he is killed.Joseph Schreiber
Joseph Schreiber is an investigative journalist who was first referenced in Silent Hill 3 with his magazine article condemning the "Wish House" orphanage run by The Order which the game's main protagonist, Heather, can read. Joseph is the former resident of Henry's apartment and Sullivan's fifteenth victim. He appears in the game as a ghost offering advice on how to defeat Walter. During the game, the small red notes he left behind give insight to certain aspects, and in some cases tips to defeat enemies. Over time, it is revealed through his notes Joseph was imprisoned in room 302 much like Henry was, and at some point he went mad and was killed.Frank Sunderland
Frank Sunderland is the superintendent of Henry's apartment building. Frank makes an effort to investigate what is going on in Henry's room during the game, but is unable to open the door or otherwise enter the room. For some reason, he has kept Walter Sullivan's umbilical cordUmbilical cord
In placental mammals, the umbilical cord is the connecting cord from the developing embryo or fetus to the placenta...
for over 30 years. It is implied in the game that he is the father of Silent Hill 2
Elle Holloway
Elle Holloway is an old school friend of Alex. She is 22 years old and the daughter of Judge Margaret Holloway. She is often found spending time at the bulletin boardBulletin board
A bulletin board is a surface intended for the posting of public messages, for example, to advertise things to buy or sell, announce events, or provide information...
in front of the police station, putting up a seemingly endless pile of missing person reports, including the report of her younger sister, Nora. At first she is cold towards Alex, resenting him for leaving without telling her. However, she noticeably softens during the story. She later follows Alex through certain parts of the game, and may escape the town with him if the right ending is earned.
Joshua Shepherd
Joshua Shepherd is Alex's 9-year-old brother. Alex is very protective of his brother and returns to his hometown on a hunch that his brother needs his help. Receiving no help on where his brother could have gone from the townspeople, Alex resolves to find him on his own. After a chase throughout the game of seeing Josh run from him continually, Alex realizes at the end that Josh has been long dead, due to a boating accident of which Alex is partly to blame. Alex's guilt for this incident and Josh's anger at Alex is transformed into "Amnion", the final "boss" in the game. In a special unlockable scene after the game's credits, Josh is seen taking a photo of Alex, one that can be found earlier in the game.Lillian Shepherd
Lillian Shepherd is the mother of Joshua and Alex Shepherd. When Alex returns home, he finds his mother in a catatonic state, staring vacantly while sitting in a chair and not responding helpfully to any questions he asks. Her ultimate fate is to be chained up in a prison and executed by being stretched on a rackRack (torture)
The rack is a torture device consisting of a rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly raised from the ground, with a roller at one, or both, ends, having at one end a fixed bar to which the legs were fastened, and at the other a movable bar to which the hands were tied...
for her part in the crimes against The Order. The ending of the game is affected by whether or not Alex shoots his mother before she dies a painful death.
Adam J. Shepherd
SheriffSheriff
A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....
Adam J. Shepherd (born 1954), is Alex and Joshua's father, who is explained as having left town, possibly to search for Joshua. A former military man (a Colonel
Colonel
Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...
in the Army
Army
An army An army An army (from Latin arma "arms, weapons" via Old French armée, "armed" (feminine), in the broadest sense, is the land-based military of a nation or state. It may also include other branches of the military such as the air force via means of aviation corps...
and Stationed at Ft. Bragg), he was the sheriff of Shepherd's Glen, and his ancestor, Isaac Shepherd, was one of four Silent Hill residents to settle Shepherd's Glen, more than 150 years ago. He is encountered in a church in Silent Hill, in a confessional booth, where he confesses (to someone he believes to be a priest, but is actually Alex) that he loved both of his sons and did not want to lose either of them to the sacrifices required by The Order. He admits to treating Alex badly because he knew he would be sacrificed. Thus not wanting to become attached and lessening the blow when the time came. After Josh's death he could not bring himself to kill Alex thus inadvertently triggering the events of the game. The option of forgiving or not forgiving him affects the ending received. He is executed by the monster Pyramid Head
Pyramid Head
Pyramid Head, also known as Red Pyramid Thing or in Japan, is a fictional character from the Silent Hill series of survival horror video games published by Konami. Introduced in the 2001 installment Silent Hill 2, he stalks James Sunderland, the primary player character, who comes to the town of...
shortly thereafter.
Curtis Ackers
Curtis Ackers is the owner of a junk shop in Shepherd's Glen. Alex first encounters him in his shop, where he offers an old revolverRevolver
A revolver is a repeating firearm that has a cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel for firing. The first revolver ever made was built by Elisha Collier in 1818. The percussion cap revolver was invented by Samuel Colt in 1836. This weapon became known as the Colt Paterson...
in exchange for a newer gun. Like most other townspeople in Shepherd's Glen, he is unhelpful as to the cause of the decay of the town. He is later found to be working for The Order, claiming his love of fixing things has carried over into his work for The Order, in which he kills people who go against the cult's teachings. He captures and threatens Elle with a saw tool before being attacked and killed by Alex.
Margaret Holloway
JudgeJudge
A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...
Margaret Holloway is the antagonist of Silent Hill: Homecoming. Like Alex's father, she is descended from one of Shepherd's Glen's founders. She is the first person to greet Alex on his return. In the beginning, she welcomes Alex, but warns him that the town has changed, and not for the better. Alex discovers her later in Silent Hill, tied down to a chair. He releases her and she escapes. It is later learned that she was there to be killed by the monster, Asphyxia, an incarnation of Nora. Like the other founder descendants, she was forced to sacrifice a child to keep the influence of The Order from pervading Shepherd's Glen. She chose her younger daughter, Nora, whom she personally strangled. Unlike the others she shows no signs to remorse over her actions. She is later found to be cooperating with The Order. Because of the failed sacrifice of Alex, she seeks to redeem herself in the eyes of The Order by killing him. She attempts to kill Alex with a cordless drill, but he overpowers her and forces the drill through her skull, killing her.
Sam Bartlett
MayorMayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
Sam Bartlett is a descendant of one of the town's founders, like Alex's father and Judge Holloway. Alex first sees him in the cemetery digging in the Bartlett family plot, although Alex does not learn that it is he until later. Alex searches for him to find out if he knows where Josh is, since Josh is good friends with the Bartlett's son, Joey. Bartlett is found in the Grand Hotel in Silent Hill, drunkenly lamenting the fate of Shepherd's Glen. It is later learned that he sacrificed his son Joey by burying him alive in the cemetery, which had a massive impact on his psyche, leading to his pathologically digging up graves. He is killed in the hotel's greenhouse
Greenhouse
A greenhouse is a building in which plants are grown. These structures range in size from small sheds to very large buildings...
by the monster Sepulcher, which is an incarnation of Joey.